Boy, 7, suffered such severe eczema he couldn’t even hug his parents

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A toddler who suffered from a severe form of flesh-eating eczema looked like half his face had been burnt off.
Five-year-old boy ‘wants to die’ because of his terrible eczema Owen Richards was just six weeks old when he first developed eczema and his condition rapidly deteriorated, leaving his body covered in bloody and weeping sores.
The little boy’s skin was so sore his parents, Cath and Andrew Richards, from Cumbria, couldn’t even hug him at times.
He also suffered ‘extreme fits’ of screaming and scratching and could not go to... read more

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